Woolf sightings: Virginia and the London Olympics

A Virginia Woolf connection to the 2012 Summer Olympics? But of course! As it turns out, one of her ancestors lived in Clissold House, now the park cafe and the spot where the Olympic torch will be passed on tomorrow.

Donation speaks volumes, This is South WalesThe collection includes a number of books by and about Virginia Woolf, and books previously owned by Enid Bagnold. The volumes were donated to Oxfam by a woman who worked at a London bookshop by day and a theatre by night. Oxfam Bookshop’s …

Book of a lifetime: Prelude by Katherine Mansfield, The Independent
But I do remember coming across Prelude, her only novel – novella, really, a long, long short story made up of scenes a bit like chapters – published by Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press in 1918. This edition I found, when I was about 12 or 13, among the books …

Werk Collective review: Fresh talent, San Francisco Chronicle
In her “Angel” duet, Finwall cites Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Perkins Gilman as inspirations, but this seems less an homage than an austere formalist essay uniting two physically disparate dancers, Julia Hollas and Vivian Aragon. They launch into sequential …

Inside the List, New York Times“Some of the most interesting insights on happiness came from my favorite novelists,” Rubin writes: “Leo Tolstoy, Virginia Woolf and Marilynne Robinson — in fact, some novels, such as Michael Frayn’s ‘A Landing on the Sun,’ Ann Patchett’s ‘Bel Canto’ and …